The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-01

- 'i'e''' TENNESSEE
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
LORD SALISBURY, it is reported, has re-
newed his offer of the British Premiership
to Lord Harrington.
A GENERAL tie-up of the Brooklyn street
cars occurred on the 23d, and considerable
inconvenience resulted.
A YACHT race for 1000 guineas is an
nounced for the coming season to cele-
orate the Queen of England's jubilee.
Mr.. PowDERLY, in an interview at
Scranton, Pa, says there is no revolt
against him among the Knights of Labor
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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHHLs resigna-
ton as Chancellor Of the Exchequer ex-
cites almost universal unfavorable com
mentin England.
IT is thought that the succession of Gen
eral Logan in the United States Senate
rests between Governor Oglesby and Chas
B. Farwell, of Chicago.
THE work of counting the $780, 900
worth Of stamps in the Internal Revenue
Bureau began on the 9th, fifty persons
being employed on the task.
FEARS are entertained that the Cars
Incorporate habits may lead to delirium
tremens, and cause him to commit some
act which will precipitate war.
THE President has approved the act
making APPROPRIATION to supply the def
cheney in the appropriation for public
printing for the fiscal year ended June 30,
1887
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said will use the
utmost pressure to induce Lord Harting-
ton to join the ministry and become Con-
sentative leader in the House of Com
mons.
AN epidemic of the disease known as
''pink-eye" prevails among the horses in
Buffalo, N. Y. The street railroad COM
panies have eighty-seven horses on the
sick list
ADAM DEENER, an aged inmate Of the
county alms-house at Lancaster, Pa, was
struck by freight train near that city on
the Dist, and received injuries from which
he viii die.
TAX-COLLECTOR SULLIoN, of Greenwood
township Perry County, Pa, committed
suicide with laudanum because, for some
unexplained reason, he could not account
for the money he had collected.
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THERE is no clew to the thieves in the
diamond robbery of Elliott's iowelry store
= at Minneapolis, MINI. The loss will not
exceed $500, the big diamond beng worth
$4,000, instead Of S5,OOO as at first re-
ported.
JONI I. MORRIS, a Baltimore newspaper
reporter, has been committed to jail until
he shall have purged himself of contempt
for refusing to divulge to the grand jury
the source Of certain information which he
obtained.
IT is now stated as a fact that the sue
cessor If District Attorney Bliss, for the
Eastern district of Missouri will be named
sOon and that Bliss will not be retained to
assist in prosecuting alleged election
frauds in St Louis.
IT is intimated that Mr.. Hearst may not
be the Senator-elect from California, as
has been expected, Mr. John P. Irish, for
merly Of Iowa, having bobbed up as a
prominent and popular candidate among
the Democrats Of the State,
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared a fifth dividend, ten per cent, in
favor of the creditors of the Pacific Ma
tional Bank of Boston, Mass. This makes
in all thirty per cent. paid on claims
proved, amounting to S?,299, l4O.
THE President has granted pardon in
the case of All Hoot and SimmOtz, two
Umatilla Indians, who are now confined
in prison at Salem, Ore, for the murder
of a white man. They are in bad health
and are not expected to long survive their
release.
SIX wooden store buildings were burned
in Pittsford, Mich. on the DIST. The los
ers are: Mrs. Perkins bazaar; Miss Snau
BILE, milliner; f. w. Weldon, harnes,
shop: Bates Hotel and furniture store
The place is small and without fire ap
paratus,
COMMISSIONER ATKINS has decided no
TO remove the Indian Supply Bureau from
New York. A branch office will be opened
in St. Louis each year, and st. Louis mer
chants VIII be given an opportunity t
place food supplies, if they bid low
enough.
: ESTIMATES have been made of the costo
a storage vault of S1O0,0OOOOO capacity
. within the court yard of the treasury build
ing at Washington. For double steel
lined vault the estimates are SlOG,d53, an'
for a simple vault without steel lining the,
are S3IS0L
THE Supreme Court of the United State
on the DIST granted motion to advance
the important bank tax case of the Mer
camille National Bank against the city o
New York, involving the question OF tn
legality of State taxation upon Nationa